On 23 March 2011 18:12, Jonathan Holloway <[email protected]>wrote:

> I've got a general question surrounding the output of various Pig scripts
> and generally where people are
> storing that data and in what kind of format?
> ...
> At present the results from my Pig scripts end up in HDFS in Pig bag/tuple
> format and I just wondered whether
> that was the best practice for large amounts of data in terms of
> organisation.
>


I too would like to know this. My plan was to convert my hdfs data into
read-only Project Voldemort key/value database. I've been told it can be
done but haven't investigated fully yet.

I am not sure when I should to use Hive or what the alternatives are.

Alex

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